^ Don't worry, Toni. There are no rumours, they are good long-term friends, just like all Team Japan, and both are single. Dai is simply too good to be single, that's why many people so depserately want to tie him with this or that skater. It's not for the first time, not for the last. And it's actualy quite normal for a popular guy.

^ Don't worry, Toni. There are no rumours, they are good long-term friends, just like all Team Japan, and both are single. Dai is simply too good to be single, that's why many people so depserately want to tie him with this or that skater. It's not for the first time, not for the last. And it's actualy quite normal for a popular guy.

LOL I think the point is we shouldn't be talking about it, rumor or not! But yes, I'm sure there are plenty of people who would love to be tied to Dai, regardless.

FWIW. When I type in "Daisuke Takahashi" the first thing the autofill Goodle does is "Daisuke Takahashi girlfriend." So yes many are curious.

Nice try, Mrs. P! When you type in "Patrick Chan", the first thing it shows is also "Patrick Chan girlfriend".

What's more curious is that the third search result that pops up is "Patrick Chan shirtless." Hm...!

Anyway, sorry to be off topic people. Carry on.

Originally Posted by starryxskies

I don't think anyone is saying people are only interested in Daisuke's girlfriend and no one else's. Quite irrelevant for you to bring up Chiddy

I could care less about either skater's dating life. But yes, I didn't bring up the search result to say that he had the most interest. Just noting something I encountered while I was looking up the WSJ about Daisuke's auntie followers.

Anyway, that was really nice of Dai to be for Akiko. I can imagine how upsetting that would be to do so poorly after having so many good skates this season.

And it would be great if they retired, married, toured together and then opened up their own training center, which produces skater after skater with the quality of programs and musicality that they've shown. All of that totally has to happen now.

FWIW. When I type in "Daisuke Takahashi" the first thing the autofill Goodle does is "Daisuke Takahashi girlfriend." So yes many are curious.

I tried that with Brian Joubert and got "tumblr" (meh) and "underwear" (not surprisingly). Speaking of Brian, there's video of him and Florent Amodio comforting Nathalie Pechalat backstage after she and Fabian Bourzat fell in the FD at 2011 Worlds, kind of similar to Dai and Akiko - and Pechalat is definitely not dating either of them. A lot of the skaters know each other well, are quite close and understand what it's like to deal with disappointment.